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Re: remote control and rcx
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Fri, 9 May 2003 02:12:50 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Chris Phillips writes:
> I also had an evening not too long ago where none of my RCXes would take a
> firmware download. I tried a couple different computers, different towers,
> fresh batteries, different room lighting, and nothing worked. The next time
> I tried to do it (a couple weeks later) everything worked just fine.
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> I never did figure out why this happened, but I've heard others tell a
> similar tale here in the past. I guess if you can't get a download to work
> after dozens of attempts, shut it down for a few hours/days and try again
> later.
Chris,
Do you own any Spybots? If you leave the remote in "ping" mode (as kids
tend to), you will have a horrible time downloading anything. This has
happened to me many times. I still do a little head scratching each time,
until I think "Duh... It's the Spybot controllers!" :-)
Mark
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| (...) Interesting. I do own a couple Spybotics, although I'm not sure I've ever even put batteries into them, and I think (80% sure) they were in another room at the time. That would explain why the problem went away all by itself, though. And now I (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) The RCX will not respond to the remote until you succeed in downloading the firmware. The built-in romware does not listen to the remote. The remote can be used with many RCXes at once, since it is a one-way protocol with no response messages. (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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